Word: ales
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...town of State College has been "dry" since national prohibition ended, although it does permit the sale of beer and ale under a local option rule...
...Beer. When Prohibition came, President August said: "We'll make shoelaces if we have to, but I'll never close this plant." Anheuser-Busch never had to make shoelaces, but it made "Bevo" (an unfermented, nonalcoholic drink that was supposed to taste like beer), near-beer, ginger ale, Grape Bouquet, root beer, "Kaffo" (a syrup for iced coffee), Busch "Tee," Carcho (a chocolate drink), starch, dextrine, corn products, malt syrup (for home brewing), and even refrigerator truck bodies and ice cream freezing units. In the end, it was yeast that pulled the company through, and today its yeast...
Galveston, Texas is located over oil fields; Jim Cronin's Place covers barrels of beer and ale, Harvard University sits on millions of gallons of water...
...uncommon occurrences. They exist under most of the surrounding territory . . . but many Cambridge residents are firmly convinced that their water plateau is peculiar. The distinctive taste of water noticed by a few connoisseurs in the College, the sinking of the Lampoon building and the quality of Harvard Ale have been attributed to "Creeping...
With no apology from the state of Illinois for having kept him in prison, Teddy went home with his stepmother and four sisters and sundry other relatives to the Marcinkiewicz house back of the stockyards. To celebrate, the Marcinkiewiczes had a bottle of whisky with ginger-ale and strawberry soda, but after 17 years on the wagon, Teddy abstained. "I still feel bitter," he said, "but I got to dissipate it. It isn't any good that way." In a tawdry North LaSalle Street walkup, Vera Walush thumbed through a deck of cards and observed: "I got nothin...